OUR GOLDFIELDS.
Saxon".—The manager reports that the now reef at No. 6 level has been somewhat small lately owing to the lighb of the conntry; but it is now improving again, and the reef opening out. The reef in the stopes averages from ono foot to eighteen inches in thickness, and a little gold is seen at each breaking down. No. 1 reef, same level, averaging two feeb in thickness, and gold is very frequently met with, while occasionally 5 and 10 pounds of picked stone are obtained. About 451b of fair stone have been obtained from here and the stopes. In Nos. 1 and 2 scopes the reef averages 3 feet, while in No. 3 ib is 18 inches. In all of these stopes a little gold is freely met with and occasionally a few (rounds'of picked stone is saved. At No. 5 level a fair supply of payable quartz is being obtained from the stopes ; on the now reef at No. 8 level, driving is proceeding to cut tho new nef. The amalgam on hand is 3500z, togethor with 901b of picked stone,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 239, 8 October 1891, Page 9
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185OUR GOLDFIELDS. Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 239, 8 October 1891, Page 9
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